I have been remiss in my duties to you, dear Global Voices readers, in not posting about the Kurdish Blogosphere for three weeks. Today I will try to catch you up in the ongoings of the Kurds in this new year. As to why I missed my articles, let's just say that planning a wedding is much more of a daunting task than I thought that it would be.
For mental ease on my part, we are going to go blog by blog instead of thematically. The Kurdistan Bloggers Union [1] besides New Year's Greetings [2] has two other posts of mild interest: One, about the media coverage of the bird flu and civil war rumors in Iraq [3], the comments on this post reveal more about the issues that the original post; the second post (which I admittedly wrote) is about an evening with former US Ambassador Joe Wilson and his comments on the Middle East [4].
Land of the Sun:Kurdistan has a post about the famous Van Cat, [5]once you see pictures of this distinctive cat I am sure that you will remember seeing it in many places.
Sami from Iraqi Thoughts has returned and gives us his impressions of the December voting in Iraq:
Hiwa from Hiwa Hopes writes about the Turkish schools in Northern Iraq/Southern Kurdistan [7], and his hopes for a less corrupt government in Southern Kurdistan [8]. He also has a fun post about a non-smoking Kurdish village [9].
Pearls of Iraq has Kurdish proverbs, part one [10] and part two [11]. She also continues to give us weekly updates on the reconstruction efforts in Southern Kurdistan [12], including part two [13], part three [14], and the weekly update for this week. [15]
From Holland to Kurdistan writes about the importance of the recent conviction of Dutch businessman Van Anraat:
Vladimir also posted several times about the bird flu in northern Kurdistan [17] and how the Turkish health ministers are not handling the situation [18] and letting it reach crisis proportions. [19] Other posts include rumors of a movie to be made about Mustafa Barzani [20] and the salon skincare craze of Kurdish men in Southern Kurdistan [21].
Roj Bash has a fabulous post detailing the defense at the University of Sorbonne, Paris, of Saywan Barzani's thesis in politicial science : The Iraqi Kurdistan Question, 1991-2005 [22].
I find that I can't say enough about the work that Save Roj TV [23] is doing and I just recommend that you make this blog a daily regular on your reading list.
If you want to know about the lastest updates on the bird flu [24] in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan Rasti is the place to go, as he has multiple posts on this topic I will not link to all of them just his main page [25]. Of course the bird flu is not all that Rasti has written about, for instance he has a great post about memories of Kurdish bread [26] and false claims of Kurdish gangsters [27].
Last up on this short novel I am apparently writing is a reminder that on this weekly article I try to cover what is being written in the english Kurdish blogs, however an alternative project of mine Kurdistan Blog Count [28] attempts to follow the Kurdish blogs in all languages. Also if you are interested there is also a Kurdish Blogs Aggregator [29]that is regularly updated with each new Kurdish blog found.